The Wall Street Journal reports on Spanish-language TV network Univision’s televised citizenship drive - uncritically, of course. Population replacement is always pleasing to the WSJ, as we march happily forward to the great one-world mongrel mega-market of Bob Bartley and Peter Kann’s dreams.[Univision Gives Citizenship Drive Unusual Lift May 10, 2007 By Miriam Jordan]

Univision’s management is encouraging Latin Americans resident in the United States to get U.S. citizenship as quickly as they can, so they can have a say in the running of “their” country. This “Ya Es Hora” (the WSJ translates it as “It’s About Time”; “It’s Time, Already” or “Now Is The Hour” would be closer) drive is a perfect example of the convergence of dollar-driven disloyal business types and the ethnic fifth-columnists who have inserted themselves into American public life:

The citizenship drive is the brainchild of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, a nonpartisan outreach group known as NALEO. Last year, NALEO officials gathered representatives from Univision, Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, Spanish-language radio, unions and dozens of community groups to hatch a plan for drawing more Hispanics into the U.S. political process.

The result is the largest campaign ever to convert eligible Hispanics into citizens and, ultimately, voters. “This is about increasing the participation of Latino immigrants in U.S. civic life,” says Marcelo Gaete, a senior director of NALEO. “They can change the political landscape.”

Naturally, instead of safeguarding the value of American citizenship, those charged with that mission are abetting this tactical dilution of our citizenship:

“I have never seen anything like it in my career. It’s big,” said Jane Arellano, a 39-year veteran of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services who is district director in L.A. According to a person close to the situation, the initiative was a factor in the agency’s decision to extend the terms of 40 immigration adjudicators in the district whose contracts were due to end in January.

Call me racist if you must, but am I the only one who is nervous that we are entrusting citizenship matters in Los Angeles to someone named Arellano? It is hard not to notice one strange and very doubtful by-product of federal affirmative action: almost everyone in CIS and the Border Patrol, the very people charged (on paper, at least) with resisting the Latin American invasion of these less-and-less United States, are almost all Latin Americans, or of Latin American origin, themselves. Imagine the Israelis hiring Palestinian Arabs as their border guards, or Her Majesty’s Government hiring Moslem Pakistanis to police Heathrow (eh, that, I’m sure, is already happening), as a rough analogy to show how stupid - in terms of Americans’ interests, not that anyone in the federal government cares about those - this is.

Univision is another fine example of how, in pursuit of profit margins and market share (even if, as here, they manufacture their own market by flooding the country with their consumers), big businesses abandons any loyalty to their home countries and any sense of duty to the countries where they make their money. Univision’s former Chairman and CEO is Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, Clinton cabinet member and convicted felon. What Americans need to wake up and realize is that networks like Univision and revolving-door Hispanic apparatchiks like Cisneros are agents of influence of the Mexican and other Latin American governments that want to influence the U.S. government by making American voters ever more Latin American. About America and Americans, they care not a whit.

The short term goal is to make America even more available than it already is to every surplus Latin American who wants to come squat here. The long term goal is…there isn’t one. When one thinks about it, the short-sightedness of the Latin American–especially Mexican–oligarchs and politicians who want an open-border America as a demographic safety-valve is quite something. As soon as they achieve their goal of “Latinizing” (apologies to the Romans for using the term in this context) the United States, no Latin American in his right mind will want to come here. This place will be just as squalid as the place he’s leaving - ever-growing stretches of it already are - and colder to boot. There goes the safety valve, and out may come the machetes for the oligarchs. It has happened before.

As for Cisneros, Univision’s management and NALEO’s membership, maybe we should give them credit for loyalty to their ancestry. We shouldn’t forget, though, their loyalty to that ancestry leads to treason against America. And, we must reject the multicult dispensation that makes loyalty to one’s ancestry streng verboten for most Americans.

Spanish language media giant Univision, has launched a citizenship drive, called “Ya Es Hora” (Now Is The Hour). The goal is to make millions of citizens out of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. As the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday:

“Backed by the largest Spanish-language broadcast network in the U.S., a massive campaign by Latino media and grass-roots groups to spur millions of eligible Hispanic residents to become U.S. citizens is showing results that could influence the agenda and outcome of the 2008 election. More than eight million green-card holders — that is, legal permanent residents — are eligible to become U.S. citizens, and the majority are immigrants of Latin American origin, according to U.S. government data. Now, Univision Communications Inc. is using its considerable clout with the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. to turn this latent voting bloc into an active and potentially potent force.

The citizenship drive started in January in LA, had a lot of success, and is now moving into other big cities. It’s to be followed up by a voter registration drive in 2008.

“This is a totally nonpartisan effort” says Univision president Ray Rodriguez. If you believe that, I have some office space in the World Trade Center I’d like to sell you.
Rodriguez also revealed some of the motives behind the campaign:

The campaign’s timing is crucial, he [Rodriguez] said, because the government is expected to raise the cost of applying for citizenship, and to introduce a new civics test that may be more difficult, later this year.

No, they wouldn’t want a more difficult civics test, now would they?

Also, one of the Univision broadcasters promoting the program is Raul Peimbert. This individual, though born in California, has done broadcasting in both the U.S. and Mexico, and has even served as General Coordinator of Mass Communication for the Mexican State of Veracruz.

The Wall Street Journal article about the citizenship campaign is entitled “Univision Gives Citizenship Drive Unusual Lift” but there’s nothing unusual or surprising about it, given Univision’s function as a Trojan Horse for the Hispanization of the United States.

On second thought, maybe it’s unfair to call Univision a Trojan Horse. The Greeks used the Trojan Horse to enter Troy using trickery . They didn’t openly walk into the city and start a campaign to register Greeks as Trojan voters! What Univision is doing is much more brazen than what the Greeks did with the Trojan Horse.

What would happen if I tried to organize a campaign in Mexico to register Americans, Canadians and other English-speaking foreigners as Mexican citizens, openly proclaiming that I did so to further the interests of Anglos in Mexico ?

Would the government of Mexico tolerate that? To ask the question is to answer it.

Gail Russell Chaddock writes in the Christian Science Monitor:

Those involved in the negotiations say the proposal would include border security and tougher sanctions against employers who hire illegal workers, along with a path to legal status – but not necessarily citizenship – for the millions now in the US.[Senate nears immigration overhaul, May 11, 2007 ]

Sen. Jeff Sessions comments on what is being produced:

“It’s a prescription for disaster,” says Sen. Jeff Sessions (R) of Alabama, who says he was involved in early negotiations. “It will all come down to a 700- to 800-page bill…. The House will ram it through and the president can sign it, but the American people will have no idea what’s in it.”

Basically this is saying that this is a non-resolution. We need an immigration policy that improves the situation for the bulk of Americans–and Mexicans–and makes the situation no worse even for those that have broken immigration law. Nothing like that is under consideration.

The problem is that for the most part the economic theory of what is happening with US immigration policy is terribly bad. That means the major policy makers are flying blind.

What it sounds like will happen is that the US government may formalize the status of millions of illegal aliens as legal guest workers–and will continue increasing the flow of immigration overall. I expect that process to continue until there is some kind of major economic crisis that forces a moratorium on immigration.

Christopher Hitchens recently visited his English birthplace after a long absence and reported on the dismal scene.

He uses the title of Melanie Phillips book, Londonistan, as a descriptor of the newly unBritish city and a word that appears commonly enough to indicate the term has struck a chord. It must be the mosques and burqas on the street. And the Islamic terror bombings of July 2005 that killed 52.

The Sons of Allah have made no secret of their goal of a totalitarian Islam-run planet and Britain is a speedbump on the way to the Caliphate.

They say that the past is another country, but let me tell you that it’s much more unsettling to find that the present has become another country, too. In my lost youth I lived in Finsbury Park, a shabby area of North London, roughly between the old Arsenal football ground and the Seven Sisters Road. It was a working-class neighborhood, with a good number of Irish and Cypriot immigrants. [...]

It’s impossible to exaggerate how far and how fast this situation has deteriorated. [...] I find myself haunted by a challenge that was offered on the BBC by a Muslim activist named Anjem Choudary: a man who has praised the 9/11 murders as “magnificent” and proclaimed that “Britain belongs to Allah.” When asked if he might prefer to move to a country which practices Shari’a, he replied: “Who says you own Britain anyway?” A question that will have to be answered one way or another.
[Londonistan Calling, Vanity Fair, June 2007]

Incredibly, Hitchens says he is “in favor of multiculturalism. I’m defending it against the hideous challenge from political Islam,” so he apparently hasn’t entirely abandoned the foolishness of his youthful leftism. Normally, multiculturalism includes Islam; otherwise it wouldn’t be a universal secular (albeit failed) ideology that purports to answer all of life’s pressing questions. So Hitch’s attitude is odd in this regard.

Still, it’s a strong article that should get some attention among readers whose have been poorly served by the MSM’s refusal to report Europe’s meltdown into a puddle of pathetic appeasement toward Muslim invaders.

Below: Muslims demonstrate in London against Islam-critical cartoons in February 2006.